Too Late, She Married the Regent

For twelve years Clara Vance has raised four orphans as her own family, and she has quietly planned to pick one of them as her husband. Her carefully arranged future is thrown into turmoil when the story takes its dramatic turn. Clara must navigate old affections, hidden expectations, and the risk that her long-held plan will collapse. The tension between devotion to the children she raised and the life she has been building for herself drives every choice she faces.